The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers

The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers by Marjorie M. Liu

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this. Takeda's gorgeous lush art speaks for itself. The story here is even better (for me) than volume 1 as Milly and Billy have stopped being sort of whiny and are stepping into their own. They're still rocked by their otherworldly lineage and still pretty peeved at their parents for hiding it.

What they don't know (and Ipo, their mother, suspects) is they're being drawn into some dark, world threatening stuff. There is a cult that is wish granting at a very steep price and one of the people affected by this reaches out to Milly via a doll (a very creepy one) as the twins keep investigating what happened in last volume.

There is a 'ghost' attached that Milly can see/speak to and bonds with. She's the more aggressive (if you will) of the twins and is leading the show. In the meantime, Ipo is looking into things as well (while her husband, Keon, calls in some reinforcements) only to learn something is taking out top tier entities (the kids' uncle doesn't like the demon term).

We learn how rare the twins are and what their cold, hard mother has done to protect them. THe adults are drawn into this mess along with their younger generation. So we have two parallel, dove tailing stories. My only regret was I didn't have time to read this in one go because it time skips all over the place so it takes paying attention to all the details.

It ends on one heck of a cliffhanger and now I have to wait until the fall to see how it concludes. Ah well.

Oh and one cw there is some anti-Asian prejudice in this in a couple characters. Yes there is blood and gore too but it is a horror comic, probably goes without saying.

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